WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 16: Boom Goes The Dynamite 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey guys, we are back from the bye and getting 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.880 you all called up and recapped on the season thus far. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.239 Fourth and one, Cam Newton steak to the right, can't 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.320 pick it up review No good rain now and then 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.480 we are previewing the big game coming up in the 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.600 Bay Area with the leader of the NFC. It just 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.560 seems like there's some positive momentum here. For Caroline, I'm 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.439 going into what we all will admit is the toughest 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.040 game they've got so far, but it does seem like 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.160 they're well positioned for us. We have all of that 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:41.040 and much more on this week's the group chat. You've 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.120 been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:50.280 can Max Sensen, and Will Brian. All Right, groupies, we 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.840 are back from our relaxing, exciting Bill and the Blink. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.000 How would you describe your bye week? Boys? Relaxing is 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.040 a good word. I would use that word well because 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.600 yours relaxed. Yours a little more strenuous. Yeah, was a 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.640 little more energetic. I you know, I had to um 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:14.720 to work off some of those London pounds. But yeah, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:22.640 welcome back. Oh gosh, mine was relaxing. Um a bit, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.119 a bit full of activities, so I'm I'm a little 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.320 under the weather. If you can't tell. I feel like 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.200 this happens every single year when we slow down, you know, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.839 we're go, go, go, go go. And then I took 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.880 two days of just laying around and my body was 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.840 like cool, yeah, let's get sick. So I'm a little 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.520 let's get sick. So I'm a little bit under the weather. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.920 But that's okay. That's why I sound a little nasally 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.920 out there for all of you who are listening. But 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.400 we're back, and it's crazy that we are to the 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:56.480 halfway point in this season. It always flies by. If 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.400 we count the preseason and all of that, we are 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.640 past halfway. But we are to the halfway point of 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:07.800 the regular season, heading out to send Francisco, the undefeated 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.320 team in the NFL one of them. Anyways, someone's gotta 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.560 beat him. I say, why not the Panthers. But before 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.480 we get there, we're going to do a little recap 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.800 to just get everyone up to speed because we took 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.240 this week off. Monday was the most Monday of Mondays 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.400 as we got back into the rhythm of this whole 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.119 season thing like Monday too, didn't it. Yeah, this whole 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.560 week is just maybe by Thursday Mondays this week and 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.119 the rain raining. You know, we taped this on Tuesday, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.000 and if you're in the Charlotte area, it's just gross 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.679 outside today. So we're going to do a recap though, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.520 to get us up to speed to where we are 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.360 currently in the season. So we we're going to do 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.880 our best, maybe dramatic readings. I believe Will has some 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.440 dramatics for us. I'm gonna try this is. This is 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.720 gonna be fun. I believe, I believe in you for this. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.080 So the way that we split this up was we 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:05.480 each took two games, and Will, just being Will, he 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.480 took the O and two start. We we were gonna 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.480 draw straws for this, but Will more or less volunteered. Yeah, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.440 it's uh, I got the ones that built character. Yeah, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.640 so one way of putting it, Yeah, that's been you 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.520 can't you can't go four and two without starting, oh 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.800 and two. You can't have a four game winning streak 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.720 and be the comeback kids. You're right without starting, You're 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.000 you're so right. So, without further ado, this is the 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.680 season in sixty seconds or so, because we don't really 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.520 time this out. So will Europe on the banks of 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.480 the Cataba River in the Queen City. It was a 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:46.000 hot day in Charlotte with the defending NFC champion Rams 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.520 coming to town. Wow, that was quite an intial. We're 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.920 already got like thirty seconds left. Panthers get the ball 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.520 opening drive fumba d J Moore slide, Joey slide missed 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.680 a long field goal. Ram score or go up three? 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.520 Nothing questionable lateral? Was it a forward pass? I don't know. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.680 Rams get the ball back. Score now it's thirteen three. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.440 Rams lead a half. Finally cut into sixteen ten on 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.720 a direct snap to Christian McCaffrey in the third quarter, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.040 but the Rams went to Sony five yards thirteen plays 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.960 for a touchdown to go back up to the fourth block, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:21.000 but Germain Carter Christian McCaffrey lounges for the touchdown and 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.520 then interception, but Cam Newton can't hit Curtis Samuel on 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.240 third down. Rams get it back. Anthers cut into three, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.240 but it is too little, too late in the on 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:34.840 site kick goes back to the Rams. Rams winn. That 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.080 was better than I was expecting. I'm sorry that I 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.360 set did remind me of Boom goes to Dynamite Boom 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.599 goes to b uh Eddie throws it, throws it to 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.480 the other guy. Guy gets touched to Boom, goes down 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.480 all right, So that's oh and one for the Panthers. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:59.320 Take it away. Four days later, Thursday night football in 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:07.320 the Queen City, the Buccaneers in town. I think we 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:13.559 should do all the weekends. Fourth and one. Cam Newton 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.320 steaked to the right, can't pick it up. Review, no 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:21.400 good rain now, trade field goals, lots of punts right 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.880 before the half, long throw to Mike Evans setting up 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.200 Chris Godwin touchdown. Bucks go up at halftime. Fifty four 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.320 yards Sly field goal right before the half cuts at 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.880 the ten nine, but the Panthers still trailing. Panthers don't 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.919 do well when they trail at half period. We know 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.960 that the fourth Sly field goal gives Panthers a twelve 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.120 ten lead, but a seventy five yards Tampa Bay touchdown 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.640 drive gives the Bucks the ball and the lead back. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.080 A punt pins the Bucks deep and in their own territory. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.240 Luke Keikley slides in for the safety, cut it to three, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.640 but the Panthers can't hits Chris Curtis Samuel on third 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.440 down yet again. I love how you're like looking at 0:05:55.480 --> 0:06:00.320 me as you're doing like turning like Panthers the ball 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.760 back down six with just two minutes thirty seconds left. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.080 Cam Newton completes five passes to get into the red zone, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.599 down to the two yard line, fourth and one came, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.160 rolls to the right, moves to the right, stands there. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.000 Chris McCaffrey gets the ball all the way to the left, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:21.280 can't get it in. Panthers lose. It was bouch. I 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.160 think I think I'm going to have to reconsider how 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.479 I do all the point after podcast, I think it 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:31.919 just needs to be reading. My favorite part of that 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.360 was will you take me back to something something rain, rain, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.159 when the rain, When the rain came, the rain came. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.520 I love how you did the rain. The rain came, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.479 and rain four the one Panthers can't get it rain. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.600 I think he said, rain now, right now, right now, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.640 rain now? All right. Well, mine surely not going to 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.400 be as good, but I get to start the winning streak. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.200 So like a night in shining Armor. Kyle Allen started 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.960 his homecoming parade in Arizona, where he said backup quarterbacks 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.440 around the world except for that opening drive fumble, but 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.359 we forgot about that because then he went on to 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.440 make all the plays that we had been waiting for. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.880 He finds christ go for a touchdown that a deep 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.880 bought of DJ Moore, and then old people with greg 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.120 Olsen and it was so nice. He wanted to do 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.640 it twice, but really it should have been three times. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.720 When we forget about that too, because he put the 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.320 cherry on top of the game with another greg Olsen 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.040 passing touchdown in the Panthers leave Arizona with their first one. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.600 That was a lot of a lot of phrases there, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.200 thank you. I'm really on the cool on him, like 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.520 pop culture cherry, cherry on top, cherry on top, homecoming 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.200 if it was just Beyonce. So then back up quarterback 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.120 around the world with me here. Okay, so they're one 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.800 and two. Then Allen and the Panthers to step their 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.880 way over to Texas where the defendant an FC South champions. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.280 Uh they get They get an ice cold bottle of 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.280 Christian McCaffrey and a shifty Cam Newton like Kyle Allen 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.560 except for those fumbles again, but we don't You're we're 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.880 not talking about those, because Allen evades the bull rush 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.440 from j J was armor, let me come on, come 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.360 on all right? And then you know what else? This 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.800 team had a pass rush. The world met the Sack 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.000 Street Boys, and their dominating reign of terror began. Through 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.800 four weeks of football, the Panthers were tied for first 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.600 with eighteen sacks. And that was just the beginning. We 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.880 know that. So the team left Texas with the team 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.120 back at five hundred. This guy that we thought was 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.480 falling after that Tampa Bay game, it's being held up 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.000 in the team. They're coming home. So where are We're 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.079 two and two now until we're coming into menshew Mania 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:44.000 Hall of Honor week. In Charlotte home game, home game, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.280 Panthers looking for that first home victory, and Chris McCaffrey 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.360 got things started with the five yard touchdown run. But 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.719 d J. Chark, who proved to be pretty much uncoverable 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.480 throughout this game, was battling back for the Jacksonville Jaguars. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:56.880 You knew early on it was just gonna be a 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.760 hotly contested one. Two good teams going at it like 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.560 Affrey and Chart back and forth with touchdowns and Brian 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.760 Burns with Carolina's first defensive touchdown on the year, the 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:11.760 scoop and score thanks Tomorio Addison, complete rump Andrew Norwell, Yes, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.000 the rumbling, someone mumbling, Um, I'm mumbling right now too. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.960 It's all an effect. It's an effect then, And how 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.600 could you not mention this two five yards total on 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.959 the ground for Carolina's offensive line, highlighted by Christians eighty 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.560 four yard touchdown run and not to be outdone, Reggie Bonifant, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.160 coming in with Christian stuff from from some cramps gets 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.880 a fifty nine yard touched now run of his own. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.679 But we would be remiss if we did not mention 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.880 the halftime performance from the one and only Age and 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.840 eighty nine Steve Smith, who incident Steth Carolina came out 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.680 starts second half on fire. I think not That speech 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.880 where he rips off the jacket the jersey underneath from 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.240 his Super Bowl season wearing eighty nine was a moment 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.680 that I believe Will Brian maybe had some tears in 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:57.000 his eyes. Max did too. No Bill cried for Jake Delone. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:02.360 You cried for it for Will, I cried for everyone cried. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.920 Don't cry for me, Argentina. Everyone cried for Well, but 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.600 you cried for Agent nine. Will cry for Ja Yes, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.600 so Panthers get their first home win in the year. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.360 Then it's back on the road, this time across the 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.360 pond to London. London was calling and the Panthers answered. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.080 He knew right off the bat it's gonna be a 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.559 good day for Carolina. Jameis Winston drows an interception to 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.160 James Bradberry on the first player of the game. This 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.320 was the Jamis Panther fans wanted to see the one 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.559 who doesn't protect the football and it was a long 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.240 day for the Buccaneers. Seven turnovers, Carolina taking the ball 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.760 away seven times in addition to how many sacks will 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.439 seven sacks? Uh. It was a bit of mayhem all 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.679 across the board for the Buccaneers, and the Panthers kind 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.440 of had their had their way. This was not a 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.800 game they needed to lean on. Christi mccaffreol did, though 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.960 he did have that one spectacular stiff arms spin made 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.760 Vernon Hargraves take a seat on the turf. But this 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.000 was a day that had to Curtis, Samuel greg Olson, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.560 D J. Moore, all involved with the defense, of course, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.560 doing what they did to have Carolina head home with 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.840 a well deserved victory, and here we are. It is 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.280 now the forty Niners week. Kyle Allen still your starting quarterback. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.320 Sack Street Boys, we don't even call like the Sack 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.920 Street Boys are better than we thought they would be, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.040 So I don't even are we calling them the Sax 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.960 Street Boys. Do you think they're better than like you 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.320 think that wasn't that? I mean, do you think that 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.880 they are who we thought they were? Did we let 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.280 him off? The Danny Green coming into the show? Um, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.679 they're better. They're everywhere I think right. I mean this, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.240 they're on pace for an NFL record for sacks in 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.120 a single season. I mean, this is a tough pace 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.080 to keep up, but I love that they're so confident 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.040 in it too, Like when asked about they're like, yeah, 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.920 we can get that, and you believe them. And without 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.920 and without KK, which is still amazing to me. I mean, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.360 I did not see that this guy. I thought the 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.080 KK Andrew is gonna be really tough on over Brendon 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.439 Butler had one and a half sacks, was his career 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.920 high an entire season. He had two strip sacks and 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.560 two plays It fantastics, Like those are the moments that 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.400 everyone whether it's been in like little league soccer or 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.640 whatever you have dreamt about, like a redemption play like that, 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.439 Like all right, I can't believe they call that on me, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:14.880 Like all right, I'm gonna get it this time, and 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.160 you don't, but Vernon did. There's an incredible picture from 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.960 the opposite end zone from one of our great photographers 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.280 of the In the back the background is the Panthers 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.920 like on the ball and it's just burning on its knees, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.040 just doing this. It's it's such a cool picture, such 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:37.520 a cool moment. So here we are this forty Niners team. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.160 I don't know about you, guys, I wasn't really paying 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.200 attention to them at the beginning of the season, like 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.120 I knew, like, okay, that's after the buy and I 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.320 kind of split this season up until before the bye. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.600 It's like BC and you know, after death, that's how 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.800 we are. So this was like pre buy, I didn't 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.319 really think about him. But then all of a sudden, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.360 here they are undefeated. They just had a slipping slide game, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.240 like their confidence is through the roof and the Panthers 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.959 have to travel to San Francisco. This is a really 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.720 big game. It's not it's one of those like out 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.760 of division games that you really think as far as 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.520 like like, this is a really big statement if Kyle 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.040 Allen and that offense can go in there and and 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.640 have a good day like that. Yeah, come on, this 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:25.240 is I think the consensus best defense in the NFL. Um. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.840 They're giving up like just over ten points a game, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.720 which is ridiculous getting after the passer not quite as 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.080 well as Carolina is. As you know, Carolina is just 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.920 an absolute terror. But between Bosa and Armstead and d Ford, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.280 I mean, those guys are completely freaking have it. And 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.839 in terms of their actual yards allowed, I mean that's 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.720 part of the problem with a little bit with the 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.120 Panthers right now. They're getting the sacks, but they're still 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:52.000 giving up some pass yards. Niners defense has just been phenomenal. Um. Yeah, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.400 if you give the quarterback time back there, if he 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.280 has time, that's where the players are being given up. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.640 But there's not a lot of time right So the 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.880 Fortnight's defense has been rocks out. I don't know what 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.800 to make of their offense yet. Garoppolo has not been great, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.240 but of course, if you're a quarterback when undefeated football team, 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.240 you're doing something right. They clearly have enough. George Kittle 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:12.720 is one of the better tight ends in the league. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.600 They've got a good offensive line and a running game 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.280 that's been something that they can lean on. Bottom line 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.200 is they're really good. I mean, anytime you're going to 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.880 face an undefeated team, I think, okay, clearly they're they've 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.480 got something figured out. As you mentioned, Caroline, they're confident bunch, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.560 which I think is only making them better. Right now, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.160 when you've got a team that sort of feels like 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.800 they're gonna go out there and win every game, you 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.400 kind of see that. This feels a lot to me 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.000 like two thousand and thirteen and well, I know we 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.200 were talking about this in the office before Carolina went 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.560 out to San Francisco. Back when the Niners. This was 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:46.360 like the Kaepernick, Uh Navarro bowman Patrick Willis days of hardball, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.920 where like the Niners were the class of the NFC 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.800 and the Panthers went out there and no one was 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.240 really quite sure if the Panthers were for real. They 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.080 had had some good VIT wins, people were still kind 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.400 of on the fence one way or the other, though 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.840 they hadn't really gone and be somebody where it was 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.000 like Okay, now we're taking them seriously. This sort of 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.320 feels like the same opportunity for Carolina, right. I mean, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.400 Kyle Allen keeps winning, but everyone's still kind of has 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.520 in the back of their mind these doubts about like, well, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.880 you know, look at the level of competition. We haven't 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.480 seen again this or that whatever. Everyone's gonna make excuses 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.400 for Kyle's performance. Right now, this is a game you 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.000 go out and you beat this Niners team, who, as 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.640 we said, has this dominant defense. I don't know what 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.440 else you can say other than that Kyle Allen and 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.600 this Panthers team is for real. I think that this is, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.280 as you as you mentioned, a statement opportunity for this team. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.000 It absolutely is. And I think it's like one of 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.760 those where they're not expected to win. No one is 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.800 going to pick the Panthers and any pick them, you know, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.680 for this week. So if you can go out there 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.480 and make a statement like this, and if you just 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.840 look at the NFC in general, the way that it's 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.240 shaking out a NFC South, the way that it's shaking 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.160 out like this is a game that really puts the 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.080 Saints on notice because what they've been able to do 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.000 with no Drew Brees right now, has really you know, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.800 I mean, they are taking the NFC South right now 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.360 the way that it's it's playing out. But you go 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.560 out and beat the front runner in the NFC, Saints 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.560 are gonna start paying attention way more than they are 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.800 right now to the Panthers because they're in the same boat. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.800 I mean, you have two backup quarterbacks in the NFC 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.200 South that are leading the NFC South, but you send 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.160 one out to go beat the forty Niners who are 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.760 on top of the entire NFC right now. Like if 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.800 I was the Saints, I'd be like, huh yeah, Well, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.360 and you you have to keep pace. I mean you 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.800 you you have a game at at San Francisco, at 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.080 Green Bay. You still have to play at New Orleans 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.120 at Indianapolis. You know who's pretty good right now. I 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.000 mean that's and you're still a game behind New Orleans. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.400 They don't have Drew Brees and they've won five in 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.600 a row. I mean, they are tearing teams up. I 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.080 mean you've got to keep pace with them, and you've 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.800 got to keep pace with these wild card teams in 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.880 the NFC. Well, this is where you get excited for 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.880 the fact that the Panthers have a defense then the 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.640 way that they're playing right now, because you're right, San 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:01.400 Francisco's offense hasn't been you know, hands down phenomenal, but 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.760 their defense is holding teams to average team points like 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.680 that's why they're winning. So you put that then where 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.120 you know, have the Panthers defense keep having the games 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.280 that they're having to keep them on pace. I think 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.200 this offense is allowed to, you know, not be perfect. Yeah, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.080 and you know, I should have pointed out that two 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.920 thirteen game ended with a ten nine Carolina victory. I 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.159 wouldn't be surprised if it's another low scoring affair in 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.800 San Francisco this time around, and you've got two heavyweight 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.520 style defenses going at it. As Caroline has got to 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.280 clean up some of the big plays, as you mentioned 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:31.960 in San Francisco has a little bit been a little 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.440 more consistent across the board and really just clamping down 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.040 on teams um. But I would fully anticipate this to 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.000 be one of those defensive slugfests, and I think Caroline 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.320 is built to handle that. Kyle Allen has not thrown 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.720 an interception yet this season, and we kind of joked 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.960 about the fumbles a little bit. Yeah, knocking, knocking on 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.439 the table, but he's done a really good job protecting 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:50.760 the football. I think this is gonna be one of 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.880 those games where it's gonna be who protects a football better, 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.280 who wins the field position battle, who's able to just 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.960 get a couple scoring drives out of this? Because we 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.320 know these defenses are gonna come to play, and these 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.600 did These defenses make big plays. I mean, that's what 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.600 we've seen the last couple of from Carolina is not 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.639 only are they they're stopping people, they're turning things into 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.720 points which offense can avoid catastrophe. Because I think almost 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.080 what this is going to come down to you, because 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.159 these defenses are capable of creating that, no doubt. So 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.360 let's go insider or what do you have? Well, yeah, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.440 so while we're talking about San Francisco's offense, I looked 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.760 this up. Their second in rushing in the NFL. They're 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.240 one of two teams that have three running backs over 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.359 two hundred yards. Can we name their three running backs? Well, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.200 obviously the first one is the one that most people 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.920 probably still don't know, right, Breda, Right, who's just kind 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.400 of this no name running back who has done great 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.320 for them. I know there's a former Falcon who's in 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.399 their back. The third one is the one that I 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:51.840 would monstered. I couldn't given right, but I mean, but yeah, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.640 Matt Matt Brado went into the concussion protocol at Washington, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.840 so we'll be checking on I think he did. He 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.400 did kind of come back out and say I think 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.800 I like poton. I right, So it was it wasn't actually, 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.200 so I expect to see him. And obviously with Panthers, no, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.560 Tevin Coleman quite well, he's given them some trouble over 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.840 the years with Atlanta. So yeah, this this run game 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.639 right and there in seventy two yards a game. And 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.760 if we're gonna take another look at Caroline's defense, one 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:15.560 area that they haven't been at their best so far 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.719 has been the run defense. Yep. They've been exposed at 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.600 times throughout the year, giving up some chunk plays in 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.520 the ground. So, uh, that has got to be showing 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.080 up in a situation like this against the Niners team 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.320 that is what you would describe as a physical football team, 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.720 great defense, They want to run the football, so that's 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.720 one thing to watch them, and that that's a great 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.240 match up there to to keep an eye on. But 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.399 let's go insider for a minute. What is one thing 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.240 that you're looking forward to or that you're keeping an 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.680 eye on this week as we are closer and closer 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.240 to the game, whether it's a player, a matchup, or 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.040 anything coming off the by yeah, I mean it's hard 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.960 not to start with Christian because again Tampa Bay, I 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.840 thought that like did a really good job against him 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.640 in the run game. He had what one point four 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.760 yards per carry in London? That makes I have that right, Yeah, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.480 two carries thirty one yards and again, as I mentioned 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.360 in our sixty second recap, he had that one incredible play. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.879 But the Buccaneers have kind of put out a bit 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:14.359 of a blueprint for shutting down McCaffrey or limiting him. Uh, 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.439 And I just wonder if the Niners are going to 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.160